Games like The Ball Just Won't Stay Up
If The Ball Just Won't Stay Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are I'm No Demonlord, ploink and Cue Knight — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
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I'm No Demonlord
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Top pick for The Ball Just Won't Stay Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
"I'm No Demonlord" is a Roguelike shooter bullet hell game. High freedom in mechanics leads to unique playthroughs. As a demon-possessed hero, battle enemies, grow, and unveil dark schemes. Can he accept his new role? Save "kinds" or destroy "outsiders"? Good or evil? The choice is yours.
ploink
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Second-strongest match for The Ball Just Won't Stay Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
A chaotic plinko inspired roguelike with a focus on wacky items and creative setups. Design a board of random crap and fill the screen with balls and numbers. There are no bad items you just gotta figure out how to use them.
Cue Knight
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Third-strongest match for The Ball Just Won't Stay Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
A roguelite inspired by billiards. Slay monsters using exquisite aim, powerful strategy and a bit of magic!
Space PiouPiou
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Ranked #4 for The Ball Just Won't Stay Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Blast through endless waves of evil space cat-liens in this chaotic bullet heaven and hell roguelike! Upgrade your tiny PiouPiou into a feathered weapon of mass destruction and survive the cosmic madness for as long as possible.
Junkyard Saints: Scrapstorm
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Ranked #5 for The Ball Just Won't Stay Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Survive endless scrapstorms in a post-apocalyptic Bullet Heaven Action Roguelite. Build devastating loadouts, collect procedural gear, awaken powerful Saints, recruit companions, conquer dungeons, and create insane synergies in a world where scrap is sacred.
Rutrum
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Ranked #6 for The Ball Just Won't Stay Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Rutrum is a physics roguelike about dropping gems, popping rocks, and unlocking chests. Build a deck of gems, inscribe them with runes, merge them together to cause damage, touch them to acquire loot from enemies. DROP, POP, UNLOCK!
Matchinko
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Ranked #7 for The Ball Just Won't Stay Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Match glowing crystals to build a pachinko board, then rain your ball loadout through it for an exploding score. A cozy winter roguelite of fairies, tiles, and fate: light every town on the climb to the boss — but miss one target and the run is over.
Ogre Stampede
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Ranked #8 for The Ball Just Won't Stay Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Ogre Stampede is an incremental bullet hell with lots of physics. Tons of stupid trolls and ogres are running wild in a mosh pit. Knock them away with your shield! Be the last one standing.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with The Ball Just Won't Stay Up.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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- What games are most similar to The Ball Just Won't Stay Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ball Just Won't Stay Up are I'm No Demonlord, ploink, Cue Knight.
- Who developed The Ball Just Won't Stay Up?
- The Ball Just Won't Stay Up was developed by ZOU YU.
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